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    Due to the character’s cowardly behaviour he grows old without ever asking the girl to marry him. “It is impossible to say what I mean!” (Eliot‚ 106). There are other works of literature pieces with characters much different than Hamlet as well. Mulan is a perfect example of a character whose characteristics are very opposite to Hamlet. Mulan was very courageous and acted on what she thought

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    repeat words they hear others saying (echolalia). Some individuals touch people or repeat actions in an obsessive manner. Very rarely‚ patients demonstrate self-harming behavior such as head banging‚ and lip or cheek biting; only patients with severe TS exhibit such behaviors. Tics are random‚ changing in severity‚ number‚ frequency‚ type‚ and location. Oftentimes‚ symptoms will subside for weeks or even months at a time and later reappear. Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder in which

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    long-range approach to our relationship and towards my whole family as well. First TS: The way my brother and I were always mean to each other was sort of like a game. Second TS: Twenty minutes after my brother left our house‚ my mom got a call telling her that Brian had gotten ran over by a truck while riding his cycle. Third TS: I can’t tell you how lucky I felt to see Brian walking into our house Fourth TS: I learned a couple of valuable things from this whole incident. Better

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    Prufrock Not Jack “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is a story about a man that has a question to ask and wants to tell you about it while wandering the streets of a city that has yellow smoke in the streets (16‚ 24). The places that Prufrock chooses are not prestigious such as “half-deserted streets” (4)‚ “one-night cheap motels” (6)‚ and “sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells” (7). Prufrock has a question to ask‚ but he will get to that later. This walk takes place in October

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    devastation left from WWI‚ the absence of hope and faith and the loss of values contributed to many authors’ feelings that the world lacked purpose. This is visible in literary works: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot. Modernism generally encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements. The premodernist world is characterized by sense of order and stability‚ rooted in: morality‚ faith‚ collective

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    T. S. Eliot’s "The Hollow Men" Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri of New England descent‚ on Sept. 26‚ 1888. He entered Harvard University in 1906‚ completed his courses in three years and earned a master’s degree the next year. After a year at the Sorbonne in Paris‚ he returned to Harvard. Further study led him to Merton College‚ Oxford‚ and he decided to stay in England. He worked first as a teacher and then in Lloyd’s Bank until 1925. Then he joined the London publishing

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    Critical Study of Texts: Poetry – T.S Eliot Task: “What Will Continue To Make Eliot’s Poetry Worthy Of Critical Study?” Referring to two poems‚ defend the question through a critical evaluation of Eliot’s poetry‚ analysing the construction‚ content and language Modernism is a literary movement that emerged in the early 20th century in response to social reforms‚ developments in psychology and anthropology‚ and the rapid industrialisation and mechanisation of society. There is a strong connection

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    car visible was the dust covered wreck of a ford” Fitzgerald portrays the imagery of an old‚ decaying car‚ which is a symbol of Wilson himself. This can be compared with the renowned poem by T.S. Eliot “The Hollow Men” as he illustrates “Shape without form‚ shade without colour‚ paralysed force” here Eliot is illustrating how the men

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    The poet must become more and more comprehensive‚ more allusive‚ more indirect‚ in order to force‚ to dislocate if necessary‚ language into its meaning." "Tradition cannot be inherited‚ and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour." Eliot is dealing with the loss of meaning and significance of many things‚ and so he continually contrasts the present with the past‚ often using literary allusions to help to arouse in the reader the response he wants. For this reason he gives some of

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    on the individual‚ both men and women. It is not enough to look back at the laws and statistics‚ in order to grasp the concept of marriage. Middlemarch‚ by George Eliot‚ paints a realistic‚ almost disheartening‚ portrait of marriage.

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